''Chlidanthus'' is a genus of

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s in the family Amaryllidaceae native to Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru.

Description

Vegetative characteristics

''Chlidanthus'' has tunicate bulbs.Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, ou descriptions des plantes les plus rares et les plus meritantes, nouvellement introduites sur le continent ou en Engleterre
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(1848). (n.p.): Louis Van Houtte. The leaves are linear.

Generative characteristics

The inflorescence is a few-flowered umbel. The pedicellate or sessile flowers have a slightly curved, elongate, tubular,

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perianth composed of six tepals, which does not have a corona.Gay, C. (1853).
Historia física y política de Chile: segun documentos adquiridos en esta republica durante doce años de residencia en ella y publicada bajo los auspicios del Supremo Gobierno.
pp. 74-76. Botanica ; 6. Frankreich: Casa del autor. The androecium consists of six basally fused stamens.Blumen-Zeitung.
p. 179. (1837). Deutschland: (n.p.). The curved filaments are very short. The erect style has a trifid stigma.HERBERT, W. (1837).
Amaryllidaceæ: preceded by an attempt to arrange the Monocotyledonous orders, and followed by a treatise on cross-bred vegetables, and supplement. ... With fortyeight plates.
p. 190. Vereinigtes Königreich: (n.p.). The trilocular capsule fruit bears numerous flat and thin seeds. The flowers of ''Chlidanthus fragrans'' are pleasantly fragrant.Bosse, J. F. W. (1829)
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Taxonomy

Publication

The genus ''Chlidanthus'' Herb. was published by William Herbert in 1821.

Species

The genus ''Chlidanthus'' has four species: *''

Chlidanthus boliviensis ''Chlidanthus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae native to Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Chlidanthus'' has tunicate bulbs.

'' Traub & I.S.Nelson *'' Chlidanthus fragrans'' Herb. *''

Chlidanthus soratensis ''Chlidanthus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae native to Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Chlidanthus'' has tunicate bulbs.

'' (Baker) Ravenna *'' Chlidanthus yaviensis'' (Ravenna) Ravenna

Placement within Amaryllidoideae

It is placed in the

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Eustephieae Eustephieae is a flowering plant tribe in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. It forms part of the Andean clade, one of two clades in The Americas. Description Vegetative characteristics Eustephieae are bulbous plants with ofte ...

.Meerow, A. W., Guy, C. L., Li, Q.-B., & Yang, S.-L. (2000). Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae Based on nrDNA ITS Sequences. Systematic Botany, 25(4), 708–726. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666729Meerow, A. W. (2023)
Classification and phylogeny of Amaryllidaceae, the modern synthesis and the road ahead: A review.
Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, 58(3), 4-4.

Etymology

The generic name ''Chlidanthus'' means delicate flower.Cahlíková, L., Hrabinová, M., Kulhánková, A., Benešová, N., Chlebek, J., Jun, D., ... & Opletal, L. (2013)
Alkaloids from ''Chlidanthus fragrans'' and their acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase and prolyl oligopeptidase activities.
Natural product communications, 8(11), 1934578X1300801110.

References

Amaryllidoideae Amaryllidaceae genera Flora of Peru Flora of Bolivia Flora of Argentina Taxa named by William Herbert (botanist) {{Amaryllidaceae-stub